These pages aren't quite as neglected as they may seem to be at times- I do drop in for the occasional spelling or fact fix, but I haven't been updating this (proto-blog) page or the front page last modified date, so that makes things appear very dated indeed.
I've had a lot of (positive) personal developments in my life this millenia, so my web page creation has been at a standstill, but I still often reply to e-mail/form-mails and keep in touch. For a while Charm Net broke my (infamous) procmail filter, and I had to move to other e-mail services. Now DataPoint (the new owners of Charm Net) have a most excellent mail system with spam filtering, so I'm back in touch again as of, oh, about the middle of '07.
After years, (OK, more than a decade) of mooching ISP access/trading
favors for consulting, I'm now officially a paying customer of
Charm Net DataPoint.
How long have I been here? Since 2004, at the same e-mail address. Yes, it bounces a LOT of spam.
July 25, 2002For those writing to me from hotmail.com lately, my apologies. Some time ago I put in some procmail rules to block spontaneous NIMBDA virus e-mails coming from users of MicroSoft Outhouse and MicroSoft Outhouse Express. Those rules worked well, but recent changes to hotmail.com servers made their e-mail headers appear very similar (no surprise I guess... hotmail.com is owned by Microsoft and they're probably leveraging hotmail's popularity to prevent people from shutting down communications with all those virus-infested Outhouse users.)
Anyway, this is fixed now, and my apologies for taking so long to keep up with the latest twist from MicroSoft. If you enjoy hotmail.com, go for it, but I encourage all Windows Outhouse/Outhouse Express users to consider using a professional, commercially supported e-mail program. (After all, Outhouse Express is just a FREE throw-in with a purchase of Windows, and likewise Outhouse with Office). The few dollars you pay will be more than made-up by ease of use and lack of virus propogation.
June 4, 2002I've taken down most of the old pages. The humor was stale, the information was old, we all have to move on. Most of the new pages are on Shooting Sports, which has a new index of its own. Some of the most popular articles are pointed-to at the top level.
The dictionary has seen a resurgence in interest lately, so I'm leaving it up, even though it is quite old. Maybe I'll get back to it. Other surviving pages are the Scotch Connoisseur, Japan Photo Album, and my abbreviated Christian Testminony. All of these are targets for updating soon (haha).
New pages are a Virtual Tour of our new house, and information on home accuracy projects and such.
I'm continuing my policy of content over form. In the interest of sanity, I'm still verifying the HTML, currently to the W3C 4.01 level. I don't promise to be 100% HTML-correct, but I do try to make things readable from any typical browser. I currently test with IE 5.5 (hangs whole Win2K system on slow DNS), KDE Konqueror (OK so far), Netscape 4.7 (the last semi-good Netscape) and Netscape 6.2 (CPU when idle: 100%), on Linux and Windoze boxes, irrespectively.
You'll notice a lot more pictures now. This means three things. One is a grudging admission that bandwidth issues have improved on the Internet. (Though it took a stock market crash plus a bunch of flying terrorists to accomplish it.) The second is that some of the pages sort of demand visuals for educational purposes. The last is, I finally bought a digital camera. :)
And no, I'm still not letting on what Rohi Suru means.
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